Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+There is a beauty in listening to music made in the spirit of energetic transformation.When the sounds transform the air and the listener. This record transports the listenerinto the heart of the music of Mdou Moctar. The blending of intention and motivationcreates a burst of sound that embraces and shakes and invites one to dance! It invitesone to breathe. It invites one to be in solidarity with the music. It invites one to be intouch with the human condition. What does it mean to be free in these times? Can theworld be liberated from the colonial mindstate that has caused such harm and mistrust?Can we mourn our losses yet build anew to form something more astounding, morefantastic? Funeral For Justice says we can.A sound that carries weight makes an impact. A sound that carries time transcendstime. We are not only listening to music but we are living through it. We are living with it.We are living in it. The artist sees history and makes poetry from it for the present.Mdou Moctars Funeral For Justice requests your presence. Show up open to thecelebration of life, loved as it should be loved. Experience the exaltation andexuberance. The words speak of ascension, awareness, sorrow, apathy, knowing, andgrowth. The guitars speak of power, energy, jubilation, transcendency, immediacy, andtradition. The drums and percussion mark the pulse of now as well as a timeless dancethat involves us all, as it did those that came before us. The wires that carry themessage feel alive with fire and purpose, explosive with possibility. This funeral is anacknowledgment. This funeral is abundant. This funeral overflows into the streetfilled with dance. This funeral stretches late into the night, kicking up the dirt, with thehum of a generator, an ever present member of the rhythm section. This funeral is aclarion call for reason and a belief that change is possible.So join Mdou Moctar in this funeral for justice, knowing rebirth is possible. A new justiceis possible. With your voice, your heart, your dance, your stomp, a new justice is born.Mdou Moctar welcomes you with joy and open arms. Be here. Feel here and do,alongside this music. Dont stand alone, join with others and do. Fight for liberation.Stand against oppression, alongside this music and do!